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Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8
Thanks for the post. Thanks, as much or maybe even more, for your comments.
I went ahead and purchased the book, after seeing your post but before reading those comments. I was beginning to feel some "post-purchase cognitive dissonance," to use terms that I learned in college a long time ago (it means that you have started to feel some uncertainty, etc. about the wisdom, etc. of a purchase after you already have made the purchase). The ratings at Amazon weren't stellar (3 1/2 star-ish). Sometimes there is a great deal of disparity between their ratings and the ratings by the reviewers at GoodRead, though. I checked, and there wasn't much difference in this case. Your comments outweighed their ratings.
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I read some of the reviews and I'm guessing (since I haven't read it yet) that the book doesn't live up to the title. Geisler is a dyed-in-the-wool Calvinist and his apologetics is more geared toward people that are already Christian. He's not quite a presuppositionalist, but he does start from the position that Christianity is true and usually argues positions that are of interest to other Christians (inerrancy, reliability of the Gospels, Calvinist theology). I'm expecting that the content of this book is similar, being a discussion of the nature of God and the existence of evil, but despite the title, it's probably something that doesn't really apply to atheists.